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Some challenges I faced when teaching my lesson about the article “An Ordinary Man” were, that at the start I felt nervous because I was the second person to present my lesson. Because of this, I didn’t have nearly as much time to prepare. Another challenge I faced was engaging the class. The reason this was challenging to me was that writing isn’t exactly something anyone enjoys doing especially when it involves citing text evidence. My final challenge was time management. This was my first time teaching a lesson and unlike presenting a slideshow or PowerPoint I couldn’t practice it considering my lesson had to last about an hour and I had already gone through most of my activities in the first twenty minutes. This resulted in me having to expand the amount of work the students had by assigning them an extra question. This did end up solving my time problem. However, it made the activities less engaging because most of the student’s time was spent writing. If I had to choose which part was the most difficult in teaching my lesson it would be, engaging the students in the activities. However, I honestly don’t think there were any rewarding moments in my lesson and I have a greater understanding of what It’s like to be an English teacher. The reason the experience was not rewarding for me was that I felt like I was constantly punishing the students with work. Also, the process of grading my student's papers was just exasperating considering I had to do it in my free time, and just knowing that real teachers many times over what I had to grade is just incomprehensible considering they have to do it on their free time as well and it’s a lot of work and a few students in my class were absent so teachers usually have to grade even more work. If I were to do this differently I think I definitely would have done way more vocabulary related activities rather than writing activities such as a Kahoot and If my story had more vocab words than a bigger crossword since my crossword didn’t have many words. Because of my experience teaching a Language arts class I now understand that there may not be any way to engage students in reading proficiently and comprehending diverse text taught in schools. That's because doing that is work and expecting that to be achievable is like expecting a kid to have a blast cleaning their room. Though there are ways that can help make it a little easier. One example is losing nonfiction books. You can ask anyone if they prefer fiction or non-fiction and chances are they will say fiction books. Also whenever a student is reading a book of their own free will, chances are it’s gonna be fiction because fiction books are interesting and have a really good storyline because they are separate from the world we live in and we usually can’t expect what will happen next. Though there is an expectation when it comes to history class where the non-fiction books are required, then we have to stick to them. But if we are staying along the lines of English class then we should be learning vocabulary, reading, and writing from fiction books because if students are engaged and enjoy reading the book rather than students being bored out of their minds and slowly falling asleep from the non-fiction books which have nothing interesting at all. Another thing schools can do is make all required reading be done in class because every student reads at their own pace and people only read when they want to read. Also, the idea of reading to students is severely tainted by memories of experiencing major boredom from non-fiction texts. In conclusion, if we are gonna engage in reading complex novels, the experience might as well be enjoyable.